[issue6933] Threading issue with Tkinter Frame.insert

2018-05-12 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I changes the import to theading instead of thread and the start line to threading.Thread(target=example) On 3.7 with tcl/tk 8.6 with thread support, I see the gui when mainloop is called in the thread, and then the >>> prompt

[issue6933] Threading issue with Tkinter Frame.insert

2013-03-08 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Quoting from msg179101 on #16823, which I turned into a doc issue: ''' What you are doing appears to be unsupported (invalid). From http://www.astro.washington.edu/users/rowen/TkinterSummary.html all Tkinter access must be from the main thread (or more

[issue6933] Threading issue with Tkinter Frame.insert

2013-01-15 Thread Serhiy Storchaka
Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Tkinter as perhaps any other GUI library must be used only from one thread. -- nosy: +serhiy.storchaka, terry.reedy ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue6933

[issue6933] Threading issue with Tkinter Frame.insert

2012-11-03 Thread Ramchandra Apte
Ramchandra Apte added the comment: Bump. -- nosy: +ramchandra.apte ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue6933 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue6933] Threading issue with Tkinter Frame.insert

2009-09-17 Thread Moray Grieve
New submission from Moray Grieve m...@progress.com: The attached file has an example where a Tk GUI is launched as a seperate thread - this all works fine in Python 2.5, but in Python 2.6 the thread hangs. The issue seems to be in the line; self.messageBoxDetails.insert(INSERT, Hello world)

[issue6933] Threading issue with Tkinter Frame.insert

2009-09-17 Thread Moray Grieve
Moray Grieve m...@progress.com added the comment: I should say this is running on Windows XP -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue6933 ___